Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
Brick storefronts, a 1927 hotel, murals of the Great Fire and a bench of family restaurants: the National Register downtown that the veterans’ colony grew into, block by block.
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About 701,000 square feet, more than 100 stores, a 20-screen cinema and lakes with fountains: the field guide to Orlando’s biggest open-air center — which end to park at, how the evening circuit works, and why locals treat it as a downtown.
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Four plazas, four jobs: the Publix-anchored Promenade, the essentials Plaza, the small Shoppes, and the boutique Village where the community’s restaurant row lives.
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Just north of Southchase at Sand Lake Road, The Florida Mall — opened in 1986, about 1.7 million square feet, 250-plus stores — plus the Crayola Experience inside it. How locals do it.
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Four of Colonialtown’s seven ranked businesses string along East Colonial Drive — a No. 4 spa, a No. 7 barbershop, a No. 8 nail salon, a No. 9 gym — anchored by 1956 Colonial Plaza and The Plaza Live. Appreciating SR 50 properly.
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Target, a nine-screen Cinépolis IMAX, family barbecue and the corridor’s best rainy-day plan — how Davenport’s 600,000-square-foot power center actually gets used.
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Mount Dora’s antique trade works at two scales — a walkable downtown of dealers and malls, and Renninger’s 117-acre twin markets out on US-441. How to work both without wasting a weekend.
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A working leather studio and a decades-old women’s boutique headline a main street where College Park actually shops — both ranked citywide.
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The Owl’s Attic and The Lovely both rank in Orlando’s boutique top five at 96.2, and Park Ave CDs has sold records since 1984. A field guide to Orlando’s best secondhand street.
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Records since 1984, two top-five boutiques, a roastery in a gas station, a food hall and a lake at the end of the street. The complete walk down Audubon Park’s award-winning Main Street.
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